johncomic

Every so often I will see a post on social media that basically proclaims the splendour of My Generation and Our Youthful Way of Life, how basically we lived better than These Kids Today, with the implication that we are Better.

And, generally, I don't give these posts a Like.

I mean, indisputably our youth was different than the world and culture of the upcoming generation, but I don't think that means it was better. There were many dark corners and closet skeletons in the past which these posts seem to gloss over and handwave away.

And I most definitely don't believe that my generation is better than the one that's coming up. If nothing else, it seems to me that My Generation represents the majority of people who are currently supporting fascism in the US, while today's youth are the ones speaking out against it. So yeah, being raised on dangerous playground equipment or whatever they talk about is no guarantee of the moral high ground.

Maybe it helps to remember that no generation is a monolith...